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Kelda Roys: “The federal government is really attacking states.”

Featuring: Kelda Roys, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 26

Community Conversations at Brix with Kelda Roys

Published June 23, 2026 | Video Starts at 06:09

I could see that coming. I had warned about that for a long time. But now it's like we're in such a more perilous place as a nation where The federal government is really attacking states. And so having somebody who is not a kind of mealy mouthed moderate, but somebody who is willing to call out Trump's authoritarian regime and say ICE is incompatible with … (06:09–06:11)

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Kelda Roys

“Republicans have gerrymandered themselves Six of our eight congressional seats.”
Community Conversations at Brix with Kelda Roys | Uploaded June 23, 2026 | 13:44-13:49
“In the last 40 years, every single Democratic governor, every single Democratic United States Senator has been a Dane County Democrat.”
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“Fiscal Bureau just said it's going to cost US an estimated $2 billion over the coming years.”
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“80% of people with early childhood education degrees do not work in the field.”
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“About 270,000 Wisconsinites are about to lose their coverage because of Tom Tiffany.”
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“We went on the air this week with our first TV ad and we were the first kind of the top tier candidates to go up on the air with the…”
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“So much of our politics is like dominated by money.”
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“We have not in our lifetimes faced a threat like the one that we are facing right now [from Trump's second term].”
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“I was like, roe v. Wade is going to be overturned. I know that. I could see that coming.”
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“ICE is incompatible with a free society and we should abolish it.”
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“We can secure our borders and have meaningful immigration enforcement without brutalizing people.”
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“We are going to go from the goalie era to the governing area [in Wisconsin].”
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“Tom Tiffany wanted to take our tax money and pay off the violent insurrectionists who attacked our Capitol and our Capitol police.”
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“We can raise the minimum wage.”
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“Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour with a path to 20 is one way that we solve that.”
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“We can restore collective bargaining rights to put more money in people's pockets.”
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“We can lower the costs on items that are the most pressing for families. Health care, prescription drugs, childcare.”
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“We can fund public schools.”
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“The last [Democratic U.S. Senator from Milwaukee] we elected was Herb Kohl in 1988.”
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“I will absolutely redistrict our congressional maps.”
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“At a minimum, we need four Democratic seats.”
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“I was on the Common cause board, like, 20 years ago and was, know, talking about the Iowa model before anybody even knew what gerrymandering…”
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“I have been so engaged in efforts to flip the court.”
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“I'm going to fund our public schools.”
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“It's fully funding the special education commitment so that kids who have disabilities can actually get the education that they are legally…”
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“I am the only candidate in this race that has a plan to [bring the private voucher scheme to a responsible end].”
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“I do have the most experience in state government of any candidate in this race, including Tom Tiffany.”
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“There is no legislator in the state, not one who has authored more legislation than I have, to regulate big tech.”
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“States have to lead the way because Congress is dysfunctional and they are functionally not able to address this the way that we should.”
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“We have to stop this unregulated, unfettered development of data centers.”
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“I don't think you should be having an AI mental health counselor.”
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“I want to start an anti-monopoly unit at the Department of Justice to actually go after big tech monopolies.”
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“I would be the first governor since Warren Knowles to be from north of Highway 29.”
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“There are two Democratic bills that were authored in the last session and both died.”
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“I, Ann Hong, and 49 Democrats are on the strong regulation bill. Only nine are on the moratorium bill.”
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“We need to pass legislation immediately in January to stop [data centers running roughshod over local communities].”
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“I have put forth the strongest plan [to regulate data centers].”
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“I will demand an upfront payment for hundreds of millions of dollars for every data center that wants to come in.”
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“We will use that money to capitalize a public clean energy infrastructure bank.”
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“Republicans like Tom Tiffany took away shared revenue year after year after year.”
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“We can stop the subsidies.”
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“Governor Evers signed [the budget with subsidies].”
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“I passed bills with Dewey Strobel, I passed bills with Mark Gundrum, Andre Jacques.”
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“I think one thing that I'm fully committed to in governing is transparency and public engagement.”
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“I totally reject that notion [of crafting a budget in secret].”
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“Early childhood education should be universally available and affordable to everyone.”
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“We're going to cap the cost of child care for parents at 7% of your income per kid.”
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“What that will do is bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in federal money.”
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“The average wage is $13 an hour for an early childhood educator in Wisconsin.”
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“Making early childhood educators eligible for the state health insurance and the state retirement plan is another way.”
Community Conversations at Brix with Kelda Roys | Uploaded June 23, 2026 | 47:30-47:37
“We face a quarter of our childcare centers closing their doors.”
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“In my first week as governor, there are three things that I'm going to pass emergency funding for.”
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“Republicans have let the Knowles Nelson conservation program die, and it ends June 30th.”
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“Trump is going to be gone in two and a half years.”
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“I've been very active and very supportive in urging the attorney general to join a lot of lawsuits, which he's done.”
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“I've already had conversations with many other Democratic governors and likely governors candidates for governor from around the country…”
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“I am also the only candidate that has a Trump proof plan for health care, for how to lower costs.”
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“I'm going to open up the very same insurance that I get as a state employee to let anybody buy in.”
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“Not only has WEAC endorsed me, the biggest and most important organization in democratic politics, I have the most endorsements overall, by…”
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“Lieutenant governor Barbara Lawton just endorsed me.”
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